Southwest Florida Boy Scout official issues policy statement

4:48 PM,
May 24, 2013

Former Cub Scouts den leader Jennifer Tyrrell, who was ousted from Scouting because she is openly gay, wears a button on her uniform shirt that reads "We Support All Boy Scouts" as she responds to a reporters question Thursday in Grapevine, Texas.

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Greg Graham, CEO of the Southwest Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America, issued a two-page press release from the national meeting in Texas, where a decision of 1,400 voting delegates struck down the Scouts' longstanding policy of excluding gay youth from its membership.

As of Jan. 1, 2014, the Boy Scouts' membership standard is revised to include: "No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone."